MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, architectural deep-dives, and system designs authored by our product engineers and AI research leads.
Financial Ledger Integrity: Preventing Double-Spending via Database Isolation
Understand transaction isolation in relational databases. Learn how isolation levels prevent dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and phantom reads.
Understanding Serverless Databases: Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 vs. CockroachDB
Serverless databases decouple storage and compute to scale automatically. Compare Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and CockroachDB Serverless for elasticity and global distribution.
PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Indexes, Query Plans, and Connection Pooling
PostgreSQL is incredibly powerful but requires thoughtful configuration for high-traffic production workloads. This guide covers index strategies, query plan analysis with EXPLAIN, and PgBouncer connection pooling.
Vector Search at Scale: Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) Indexes
Similarity searches on millions of high-dimensional vectors are computationally expensive. Learn how HNSW graph indexes make nearest-neighbor search sub-millisecond.